Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire.

Negotiating identities in a heteronormative context.

Society prescribes a set model of heterosexual development toward a gender and sexual identity. Individuals with gender and sexual identities that do not conform to the prescribed heterosexual identities must essentially develop their own way, that is, they must privately negotiate their path through identity development and identity adoption. However, while negotiating their private reality, t...

Reasoning Principles for Negotiating Agent

Automated negotiation is an important applying field of agent theory and technology. For the current agent theoretical models have some troubles in explaining the agent's negotiation behaviors, this paper defines utility as costs and incomes coming from the transformation of the possible negotiation states. This lead to a semantic model fitting the agent's automated negotiation. Then, on the ba...

Asexuality: classification and characterization.

The term "asexual" has been defined in many different ways and asexuality has received very little research attention. In a small qualitative study (N = 4), individuals who self-identified as asexual were interviewed to help formulate hypotheses for a larger study. The second larger study was an online survey drawn from a convenience sample designed to better characterize asexuality and to test...

Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society

‘My language, my people’: language and ethnic identity among British-born South Asians

This study explores how a group of second generation Asians (SGA) understood and defined language, focusing upon the role they perceived language to have played in their identity. Twelve SGA were interviewed and the data were subjected to qualitative thematic analysis. Four superordinate themes are reported, entitled ‘Mother tongue and self’, ‘A sense of ownership and affiliation’, ‘Negotiating...